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The First Minister is standing there telling us that she is being short-changed, but some of us think that an extra £2 billion more than she had when she woke up yesterday morning is quite a bit of extra change.
On jobs, the Edinburgh Airport Ltd study found that if a 50 per cent cut were in place, over five years we could be looking at an extra 3,800 jobs, 900,000 extra passengers and £200 million more for the Scottish economy.
We do enhanced contact tracing—in other words, we contact trace contacts of contacts, and we do the genomic testing on that sample. The genomic testing is an extra layer of protection for us as we come out the other end of the current situation.
Sorry, convener—can you repeat the extra question, please? I was casting back to Donald Cameron’s first question to Lyndsay Lauder, which was on the reported transmission of coronavirus cases.
That concerns us, and that is why the advice to the First Minister and the Cabinet is that we should do something extra, which we will hear about later today.
However, I reassure him that we are working hard across the Government to put in place the right and adequate support to recognise the additional and different challenges that people are now facing as a result of the change in the way in which we respond to the pandemic and the easing of the restrictions. How much extra resource has the cabinet secretary pr...